University Times

Winners and nominees for the David and Tina Bellet CAS Teaching Excellence Award 2000 will be recognized at a dinner April 15 in the Masonic Temple Ballroom. Iain Campbell, associate professor, biological sciences; Barbara McCloskey, associate professor, history of art and architecture; Gordon Mitchell, assistant professor, communication; and Chandralekha Singh, lecturer, physics and astronomy, have […]

Hillman Library will extend its hours for the spring term reading/final exam period, and will be open continuously from 9 a.m., Saturday, April 22, until 10 p.m., Friday, April 28. During this period, admittance to the library from midnight to 7 a.m. will be with a valid University ID only. Services available during all hours […]

April 28 is the deadline for submitting nominations for the Chancellor's Affirmative Action Award. The award is presented to the outstanding Pitt unit or individual that has made a significant contribution to affirmative action. For the purposes of the award, affirmative action is defined as "the increase of access to and full participation in all […]

Caseworkers, supervisors and other child welfare employees can earn a master's degree at Pitt's School of Social Work or at any of five approved schools across the state, through a Pitt-administered program called Child Welfare Education for Leadership (CWEL). A $6 million grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Pennsylvania […]

Four University undergraduates have won Barry M. Goldwater Scholarships for 2000. No institution may nominate more than four Goldwater candidates per year. Recipients are: Christopher Farrell, a junior majoring in biological sciences; Jacob Nadler, a junior neuroscience major; Brian Ruskin, a junior geology and planetary science major; and Kathlean Schaefer, a sophomore chemistry major. The […]

The seventh annual winter jazz festival at the Johnstown campus raised $31,000 for the Blackington Endowment for the Performing Arts. Winter Jazz 2000, featuring jazz trumpeter Terence Blan-chard and his sextet, brought the total endowment money raised by the festival to $160,000. The endowment furnishes operating support for the Pasquerilla Performing Arts Center on the […]

Pitt's Department of Philosophy will hold the first Tamara Horowitz Memorial Lecture April 24 at 3:30 p.m. in the William Pitt Union Ballroom. Horowitz, who died in January, was the first woman to chair Pitt's philosophy department. Alexander Nehamas, Edmund N. Carpenter II Class of 1943 Professor in the Humanities and professor of philosophy and […]

For people who want to test their hearing, a free screening is a phone call away. The UPMC Eye and Ear Institute's Department of Audiology and Hearing Aids has established a two-minute hearing screening via recorded message that can be accessed anytime by dialing 647-2400. When individuals dial this number, a series of four tones […]

At a time when most hospitals in western Pennsylvania are bleeding red ink, UPMC Health System's revenues exceeded its expenses by $230 million over the last three years, the system's president reported recently. A "disproportionate share" of UPMC revenues came from the system's $1.8 billion in investments, Jeffrey Romoff said. "Virtually all [non-UPMC] hospitals in […]

Books and Journals In this 29th annual edition of Books and Journals, we recognize Pitt staff and faculty who write or edit books as well as those who edit journals. Book submissions have been arranged according to school, and listed alphabetically by title. In instances of co-authored and co-edited books, the Pitt faculty or staff […]